Friday, March 31, 2023

Humans are more than AI machines - OpenAI's chatGPT edits a MindBlog preliminary draft

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I am feeling majorly freaked out now. .. I asked ChatGPT to improve one of the draft paragraphs that I mentioned in this past Tuesday's ...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

MindBlog's seduction by AI

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I decided to drink the kool aid, go down the rabbit hole, of learning more about AI, and have ceased regular MindBlog posts. As I have been ...
Friday, March 17, 2023

Is the hype over A.I. justified? Does it really change everything?

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I know, I know…. We’re all tired of the hysteria resulting from the sudden appearance of ChatGPT-like programs that feel to us as though the...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

To the mountains - an analysis of China's current state

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To any any MindBlog readers who might be China buffs I highly recommed reading Dan Wang's 2022 letter on China's current and future...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Blood-derived signals as potent drivers of both age-related brain dysfunction and brain rejuvenation.

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 An open source review from Bieri et al. has some nice graphics and tables summarizing the varieties of pro-aging and rejuvenating interven...
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Friday, March 10, 2023

An arthritis drug mimicks the anti-aging benefits of youthful blood transfusions

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Some edited clips from the New Atlas description of research by Passegué and collaborators on rejuvenating the stem cells located in the b...
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Wednesday, March 08, 2023

A skeptical take on the AI revolution

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I want to pass on to MindBlog readers some clips I have made for my own use from the transcript of a podcast interview of Gary Marcus by Ez...
Monday, March 06, 2023

MindBlog as a portal to Open AI's ChatGPT? A few stumbles on the way...

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After my initial foray into playing with OpenAI's ChatGPT last December I decided to return for another chat today, and was initially b...
Friday, March 03, 2023

Empathy lost and regained in a mouse model of dementia

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A PNAS Journal Club article by Carolyn Beans points to work by Yao and colleagues that shows that a loss of empathy that is especially pro...
Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Artificial intelligence and personhood

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MindBlog hesitates to add to the feeding frenzy of articles about LLMs (large language models) such as Open AI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing’...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Possible mechanism of psychedelic therapeutic effects

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From the latest issue of Science Magazine:   The mechanism underlying psychedelic action Psychedelic compounds promote cortical structura...
Friday, February 24, 2023

MindBlog picks some of its favorite posts on defining what a self is…

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The following links are from a recent scan of what pops up if I click on items in ‘Selected MindBlog Categories’ in the right column of this...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

A fish passes the mirror self recognition test!

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Our human abilities continue to found in more evolutionarily distant species. From Kohda et al. : Some animals have the remarkable capacit...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Fundamentally rethinking what a mind is and how a brain works.

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The February Issue of Trends in Cognitive Science has an open source Opinions article from Lisa Feldman Barrett and collaborators that sugg...
Friday, February 17, 2023

The touch sensitive nerve cells that make mice (and probably us) horny.

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From Elias et al. (open source) in the journal Cell:   Highlights • Activation of Mrgprb4-lineage touch neurons induces lordosi...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

A.I. as a path towards mass lunacy

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MindBlog wants to be part of the passing on of this elegantly stated clip from an article by novelist, literary critic, and essayist Walte...
Monday, February 13, 2023

An fMRI marker of drug and food craving

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Koban et al. identify an fMRI-based neural signature of craving that is common to both food and drugs, predicts self-reported craving, disti...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net.

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In an open source article in the January issue of the American Economic Review East et al. show that early life exposure to Medicaid enhanc...
Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Shifting from foraging to farming, beginning ~12,000 years ago, changed everything.

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A special Feature section in the Jan. 17 issue of PNAS offers a series of perspectives on the past 12,000 years of human behavior, adaptatio...
Monday, February 06, 2023

Openness to spiritual experiences...with caution

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After a Protestant Christian upbringing (I was a teenage organist in an Austin Lutheran Church, and took a course from theologian Paul Tilli...